Tom Sleigh

Biography

Tom Sleigh most recent volume of poetry is Space Walk. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. His essay “The Deeds,” from the Summer 2008 issue of VQR, was selected for Best American Travel Writing 2009.

See Work

REPORTING / Winter 2012

A Violent Prone, Poor People Zone

By Tom Sleigh ,  Photography by Jason Florio

The Dadaab Refugee Camp and the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi have seen an influx of hundreds of thousands of Somalis seeking a better life—but, as often as not, Kenya can offer them little.

 

Children from Al-Adala, a nearby IDP camp, play in Mogadishu Catholic Cathedral, destroyed by Islamists in 2008
Summer 2009

Border Crossings

By Tom Sleigh
Summer 2009

Refugee

By Tom Sleigh
Summer 2008

The Deeds

By Tom Sleigh
Spring 2007

Last Broadcast

By Tom Sleigh
Spring 2007

Airport Economy Inn

By Tom Sleigh
ESSAYS / Winter 2006

Self as Self-Impersonation in American Poetry

By Tom Sleigh

Although my sympathies may lie with the horse and not with God’s implacable heat, implicit in this conversion story are questions about identity, how it gets established, and what forces are sufficient to sponsor it. In the realm of poetry...